Base Location
You’ll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations: Glasgow or Perth.
Salary
£61,620 - £75,592 + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing, and family.
Working Pattern
Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available.
The Role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll join a team of developers working in Agile practices to modernise SSE Energy Markets IT practices. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, security, and scalability of our EM IT estate in both cloud and traditional on prem deployments; focusing on application packaging, code deployment, automation, infrastructure as code, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Your expertise in cloud services (Azure), security, and automation will be instrumental in driving forward the digital transformation initiatives.
You will
* Design and deliver scalable cloud solutions, including infrastructure as code (Terraform), application packaging and deployment, integrations, and App Services—ensuring cost efficiency and adherence to best practices.
* Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, collaborating closely with development teams to streamline release management and accelerate delivery.
* Implement robust monitoring and alerting frameworks with tools such as Splunk, Azure Monitor, and ServiceNow integration, proactively identifying issues and supporting incident management.
* Drive automation, security, and compliance, optimising infrastructure, reducing manual tasks, maintaining documentation, supporting ITIL processes, and participating in on-call rotations for critical system support.
You have
* Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps, with deep expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code and strong proficiency in Azure resource management, including networking, storage, databases, and compute services.
* Advanced CI/CD knowledge, with hands‑on experience using tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, and a solid grasp of release management, Agile delivery, and automation best practices.
* Strong programming skills in languages such as PowerShell, Bash, Golang, Groovy, Python or C#/.NET, with a keen focus on implementing secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
* Technically curious and proactive, with a passion for continuous learning and improvement, and a strong understanding of Azure monitoring, alerting, and security frameworks.
Benefits
Flexible Benefits to fit your life: discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships; wellbeing benefits like free online GP and 24/7 counselling service; interest‑free loans on tech and transport season tickets or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme; generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.
Equal Opportunity Employer
SSE is an equal opportunity employer and will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive.
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